Joe Biden: ‘Jim Crow sneaking back in’ through voting law changes

Former Vice President Joe Biden told voters in South Carolina last weekend that the Trump administration is allowing the United States to return to the days of Jim Crow, a time when it was legal to deny black Americans the right to vote because of their race.

The administration does not appear to be overtly denying people of color the right to vote – it is illegal to discriminate based on race. But some recent changes in voting laws led by those in the president’s party appear to be having effects that mirror that period of legalized discrimination…